Life quotes

“It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.” Immanuel Kant

“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.” Rudyard Kipling

“I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.” Rush Limbaugh

“Football is like life and I know life.” Rush Limbaugh

“When a nominee for the Supreme Court, one of only nine lifetime appointments, makes an overtly brazen racist comment about tens of millions of American citizens, we don't need lectures. What we need to do is to confront her with what she said and what it says about her.” Rush Limbaugh

“The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?” Rush Limbaugh

“All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.” John Locke

“I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.” John Locke

“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.” Clive Staples Lewis

“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.” Clive Staples Lewis

“I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.” Paul McCartney

“At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.” Paul McCartney

“If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.” Michelangelo

“I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.” Michelangelo

“I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.” Michelangelo

“If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.” Abraham Maslow

“Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.” Groucho Marx

“The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.” Groucho Marx

“The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.” Groucho Marx

“I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?” Douglas MacArthur

“Life is a lively process of becoming.” Douglas MacArthur

“You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.” Steve Martin

“I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out.” Steve Martin

“Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.” Steve Martin

“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.” Anais Nin

“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.” Anais Nin

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.” Anais Nin

“Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.” Anais Nin

“Dreams are necessary to life.” Anais Nin

“The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.” Anais Nin